Board of Aldermen 02-22-2022 Page 26
Alderman Jette
So we're simple people. Okay. So we're asking you a simple question. Would you prefer that we continue the mask
mandate until the end of the month as originally provided for in the ordinance?
Tony Storace
Yes. It would make our day.
Alderman Jette
Okay. Thank you for clarify that.
Alderwoman Timmons
Well thank you for your information because | did have a conversation with Director Bagley today and | am the liaison for
the Health Department on one of her input and she said exactly what you just said that we should keep the mandate until
the 28th. So that’s my stand as well and it’s for all the reasons everybody talked about in here.
I'm sorry, | did have two deaths this week and they were COVID related. Okay. That you could call it fear all you want.
It’s the truth. It’s the facts, it’s what it is. Masks do work. | Know that for a fact. My kids work in the hospital. They were
masks all day long because they have to protect their patients. Masks work. So all the stuff that people say on masks
don't work. They don't do this. They don't do that. That's a bunch of garbage.
Secondly what happened at the Board of Education last night, | hate to say this, but take you away from what you're
seeing now, these students that spoke last night were traumatized because he got heckled and | got a message from him
at 11 o'clock and said that the parents heckled him. A kid because he was pro mask. That's a shame. This kid right here
was elegant on the way she speaks much better than | course but she was elegant. She got heckled. People we got to
stop that. We got to stop attacking people that don't agree with you. If you don't agree with that particular person, just
respect their opinion like | respect your opinion. | don't attack you. And that is | don't attack you on Facebook. | don't
attack you anywhere. Your opinion is your opinion and just that’s what it is. You are not the professionals. You're not the
doctors. You're not the healthcare workers. You're just what | have — opinion but my opinion means a little bit more
because | was elected. And by the way, | was elected by the masses and the masses said keep demanding. That's all |
have to say.
Tony Storace
Just add to that, | didn't bring the statistic last time was up here but 140 people died in Nashua.
Alderwoman Timmons
Thank you.
Alderman Thibeault
Just two quick comments and it's not a question I'm sorry, Dr. Storace. So just looking at the screen up there. Someone
put he's a dentist. | don't care. He's the Chairman of the Board of Health. The Board of Health has other types of
specialties. We have a pediatrician here. They're made up of multiple specialties. He's representing them. He comes
and delivers the facts or the facts as of the Board of Health. Believe it or don't believe it but to demean someone like that,
that's what Gloria is talking about.
The other thing | want to say is, you know, I'm going to stick with my original that, again, I've been going back and forth all
day but I'm going to still vote to go till the 28th. I'm going to do that for a really the principle because my principle was that
we have the mandate to the 28". That's the original thing | voted for. I'm going to speak for the kids in high school and
other than want the mask mandate but can't vote out here, and the seniors, and people who have e-mailed me that want
to keep it. It's not just the people that don't want it that have e-mailed me. We get plenty of e-mails from people that do
want it and unfortunately they just don't come out to these meetings. I'm going to stick with principle and I'm going to
continue to vote that way that | said earlier.
